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Luxembourg passes first EU space mining law. One can possess the Spice

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> "Who will testing the materials mined for odd chemicals or pathogens that might be coming back to Earth?"

Somebody has been watching old movies.

"Odd chemicals"? Can't compare to the ones we create right here on Earth. I mean, the idea of Rampaging Minerals from Space is sooo 50's (pretty good movie tho).

About the pathogens. No fear; any poor, radiation-raddled microbe that somehow manages to arrive intact will find itself at the mercy of an existing (and highly advanced) biosphere, that will of course show no mercy. At best it will somehow survive and become a distinct part of the biosphere, like Archaea but more foreign.

It's really our implacable microbes that might threaten other potential biomes (Mars, Europa).

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